Winter, Museum of Modern Art, New York Large Works by Rowan Artists, Mayor Rowan Gallery, London, England Monotypes by Catherine Lee, John Walker, Sean Scully, Rubin Gallery, New York
1986
After Matisse, curated by Tiffany Bell, organized by Independent Curators Inc., New York; traveled to Queens Museum, Flushing, New York; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Massachusetts; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida; the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts An American Renaissance in Art: Painting and Sculpture since 1940, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Fine Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Public and Private: American Prints Today, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York Catherine Lee & Sean Scully, Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania CAL Collects 1, University Art Museum, the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California The Heroic Sublime, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York Structure / Abstraction, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan Courtesy of David McKee, David McKee Gallery, New York; traveled to Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, California Detroiters Collect: New Generation, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan Recent Acquisitions, Contemporary Arts Center, Honolulu, Hawaii Group Drawing Show, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 25 Years: Three Decades of Contemporary Art, Judah Rowan Gallery, London, England
1985
Abstract Painting as Surface and Object, curated by Judith K. Collischan Van Wagner, Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post Center, Long Island University, Brookeville, New York An Invitational, curated by Tiffany Bell, Condeso / Lawler Gallery, New York A Decade of Visual Arts at Princeton: Faculty 1975–1985, Princeton University Museum of Art, Princeton, New Jersey Abstraction / Issues, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York; traveled to Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York; Sherry French Gallery, New York Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina Masterpieces of the Avant-Garde, Annely Juda Fine Art / Juda Rowan Gallery, London, England Painting 1985, Pam Adler Gallery, New York Small Work, Juda Rowan Gallery, London, England
1984
From Color Surface: Painting About Itself, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, the Museum of Modern Art, New York Four Painters: Pat Steir, Sean Scully, Robert Mangold, Robert S. Zakanitch, McIntosh / Drysdale Gallery, Houston, Texas Part 1: Twelve Abstract Painters, Siegel Contemporary Art, New York ROSC ’84: The Poetry of Vision, the Guinness Hop Store, St. James’s Gate, Dublin, Ireland Currents #6, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Small Works: New Abstract Painting, Lafayette College and Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania Group Exhibition, Susan Montezinos Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Hassam & Speicher Purchase Fund Exhibition, Academy of Arts and Letters, New York Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture, William Beadleston Fine Art Inc., New York Art on Paper, Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
1983
Three Painters: Sean Scully, David Reed, Ted Stamm, Zenith Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania American Abstract Artists, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina; traveled to Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Nocturne, curated by Michael Walls, Siegel Contemporary Art, New York New Work New York (Newcastle Salutes New York), Newcastle Polytechnic Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, England Student’s Choice Exhibition, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut Contemporary Abstract Painting, Muhlenberg College Center for the Arts, Allentown, Pennsylvania
1982
Critical Perspectives, curated by Joseph Masheck, P.S.1 The Institute for Art & Urban Resources, New York Recent Aspects of All-Over, curated by Theodore Bonin, Harm Bouckaert Gallery, New York